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The Lighthouse on Monkey Island

Monkey Island, 2024 Recently, I had the pleasure of "discovering" a  very unusual lighthouse, the lighthouse on Monkey Island, Florida. This lighthouse isn’t located on an ocean or a huge lake. No, this lighthouse is on a tiny island in the Homosassa River. So how did it get there and why, you ask. [...]

By |2024-04-08T15:58:45-05:00April 8th, 2024|Lighthouse Blog Category|1 Comment

Lighthouses on Lockdown

Race Point Light, Cape Cod, MA, photo courtesy lighthousefriends.com Closed for overnight stays summer 2020. With the threat of the COVID virus pandemic, most everyone has been affected in some way. Our lives have changed, and our futures questioned. For those of us housebound, we’ve hoped for summer vacation as an escape from [...]

By |2020-05-30T17:20:48-05:00May 30th, 2020|Lighthouse Blog Category|1 Comment

Lighthouses Gone to the Birds

Petit Manan Lighthouse, courtesy www.lighthousefriends.com.   What do Matinicus Rock, Petit Manan, Falkner Island, Great Duck Island and Seahorse Key* have in common? They’re all islands and they all have lighthouses. But another thing they share is their relationship with birds. Seabirds have taken over these islands, but for good reason – to [...]

By |2025-03-10T15:18:24-05:00February 1st, 2014|Lighthouse Blog Category|0 Comments
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